NightAndDay

Nice name. =) Going to do one black one white like YinYang? --David Alves

If I continue with the idea, then yes, definately =). I realised it was a bit tough to fit a pattern matcher that stored data on multiple enemies, and has scan interpolation, and still fit a GF gun with scan interpolation, so I've made something that is a cross between the two: a segmented play-it-forward gun, that reconstructs the last 50 movement patterns in that set of 'bins'. I've also got an optimal radar scanning (inspired by a comment by Voidious) that scans in the direction of the enemy who was scanned the longest time ago - so it should be pretty effective for melee as well. It's got my-location sharing, which will be used for movement. Right now I'm at 1200 bytes, and all I have to add is the movement. I'm pretty sure I'll go for MinimumRiskMovement - although a special case for 1v1 at the end would be nice if I can fit it =). -- Skilgannon

• My gun seems so simple by comparison: lightly segmented GuessFactorTargeting, no scan interpolation, no RollingAverage. =) I wonder if your optimal radar is smaller than mine - I'm happy with how well mine functions now, but it does take up several hundred bytes. It's still 100+ bytes smaller than my full-scan-sharing radar that I tried out in the laboratory, though. -- Voidious

• The nice thing about scanning in the direction of the bot that hasn't been scanned for the longest is that it doesn't only work for TwinDuel, but Melee as well. The only difference for Melee is that sometimes a bot might be out of range - I'll have to figure out something for that. Here's my radar - I'm not sure how many bytes it uses:

            Enumeration allE = enemies.elements();
            double otherAngle = absBearing;
            int oldestScan = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
            do{
               EnemyInfo tmp = (EnemyInfo)allE.nextElement();
               if(tmp.lastScanTime < oldestScan && tmp != eInfo && tmp.isAlive && !(eInfo == currentTarget && getGunHeat() < 1)){
                  otherAngle = absoluteAngle(myLocation,tmp.location);
                  oldestScan = tmp.lastScanTime;
               }
            }while(allE.hasMoreElements());
         
            setTurnRadarRight(Utils.normalRelativeAngle(otherAngle - getRadarHeadingRadians())*2);

 -- Skilgannon

• That's nice right there. At first glance, I think that's a lot smaller than my radar code, but I'm actually counting all the prerequisites (e.g., managing that enemies collection) when I say mine's several hundred bytes, so it might not be all that much worse. Mine should work the same, but I basically turn the radar back if I've covered Math.PI or less since seeing the previous enemy, or if there's just one enemy left. And yeah, mine doesn't port to melee either. =) -- Voidious

I'm going away until next week wednesday....so I don't think I'll have an entry this week. Good luck, guys! -- Skilgannon